Steven Spielberg Wanted to Direct James Bond Film

"Skyfall" was released earlier this month and has already grossed $708 million globally, making it the highest-grossing James Bond film ever and on track to possibly break the $1 billion mark.

While promoting "Lincoln," Steven Spielberg was asked whether he would be interested in ever directing a James Bond installments. The director replied: "I went to producer [Cubby Broccoli] and I asked if I could do [a James Bond film] and he said, 'No.' I've never asked again. Instead, I made the 'Indiana Jones' series."

He was then asked if he had the chance to see "Skyfall." "I've seen it once and I'll see it a second time," he said.

He has done 'Lincoln' - a poop fiesta oscar sucking drama with the sexy sally field giving some of the cheesiest lines in film history in order to win some oscars.and it will get the oscars because the academy is owned by spielberg and is constructed from a bunch of faggots.

Pretty funny Spielberg was shot down so easily. Bond death by Broccoli. Schlinder's and Saving Private Ryan... great dramas. But a Bond film is outside of SS's field of expertise. And I would have disliked his talking his way in to directing one just to satisfy some selfish desire on his part.

As a coincidence, I once sucked on the tits of a girl whose last name was Broccoli (can't remember if I banged her or not... hmmmm).

And Steven, as for your liking Skyfall or wanting to see it a 2nd. time... IDGAS (I don't give a sh*t!).

MARGIN CALL
SHAME
LAWLESS
DREDD
KILLING THEM SOFTLY
END OF WATCH
THE SAPPHIRES
BABY CALL
CHRONICLE
SHADOW DANCER
ARGO
DETACHMENT
TAKE SHELTER
THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
HOUSE OF TOLERANCE
KILLER JOE
CARANCHO
THE RAID
J EDGAR
RAMPART

Jesus mink... that's the nicest thing you've ever said about Cameron. But, I'd have to agree. RE: Avatar (although I've been on the the kindest here on WP towards that movie - for what it was). And I don't think I've ever a person that didn't like True Lies. What's not to like? Cameron can get Arnie to act. And even Tom Arnold was funny. And a Harrier... seriously, what's not to love?

You have to wonder if they're all the same people on here. Probably that Dark dork under yet another stupid moniker.

I mean, how lame do you have to be to take up for a guy that does nothing but stalk Bullit under numerous accounts all day, everyday?

"But I've no plans to see any other movie of mister SS, like the Nazi propagandist party name, isn't this an irony"

Actually, imbecile, SS wasn't the "party name".

SS stands for Schutzstaffel, a paramilitary organization WITHIN the Nazi party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel

And no, it's not really irony.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony

"Ironic statements (verbal irony) are statements that imply a meaning in opposition to their literal meaning. A situation is often considered to be ironic (situational irony) if there is an "incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result"

Just another dumbass c*ckchugger with far too much time to run his mouth, eh, MangoDarkJBSedibusPhunkyDubbsDangerlipsBlumpkin?

I know, about Minority, but visually stunning, I know the short-story is much more developed and that the flick completely falls apart at the 2 half of the third or final act, just as with A.I. another good film but totally wasted.

My favorite is Last Crusade. Perhaps not a "masterpiece", but it was definitely more enjoyable than Temple of Doom, by far.

I'd say, though, some of his best movies were Schindler's Lists, Saving Private Ryan and AI, although, for some reason, his more impressive works are the least entertaining, whereas some of his films, like Munich, The Terminal and War of the Worlds, are misses in both categories.

what i didn't like about indiana jones was that it had too many characters and focused a lot on sean conenry....Ford was almost a side kick in that movie.still a great movie but not my fav among the first 3...

I hated The Terminal for the cold calculating bitch who could have loved Hanks' character only if she hadn't had Selma Hayek's soul.

And Munich...well made, nothing new visually or narratively, and had the stink of equating murdering innocent athletes with murdering the murderers who couldn't really be brought to justice any other way.

You'd think Spielberg, being something a Jew himself, would demonstrate a little more compunction portraying his own people as bad as those out to destroy them.

"what i didn't like about indiana jones was that it had too many characters and focused a lot on sean conenry"

Dunno about you, but that was one of the only times I really saw Connery shine in his elder years.

He was hilariously good in that film, imo, and yeah, you're right, Ford didn't hog the film, but that was the thing: it was about THEM, father and son, and it gave huge new dimensions to Indiana's character that heretofore we hadn't seen.

Plus, it was non-stop action and comedy.

Definitely my favorite of the three, and, imo, one of the earliest times a third film in a series exceeded the original, although Raiders is still second best.

Zero Dark Thirty opens with 90 seconds or so of black screen accompanied by a soundtrack collage of emergency phone calls from people trapped in the Twin Towers; no need for the familiar visuals here. Cut to two years later, when a captured nephew of Osama Bin Laden undergoes a prolonged series of brutal CIA interrogations that involve beatings, waterboarding, being bound by a dog collar and ropes and getting locked in a small wooden box. It's not the most inviting way to usher a viewer into a movie

In a “black site” at an “undisclosed location,” a CIA officer is interrogating a man suspected of having information on Osama bin Laden‘s courier. The suspect, Ammar (Reda Kateb), believes he can withstand the waterboarding, the dog collar, the sleep and food deprivation, the heavy metal soundtrack that hammers his warehouse cell 24 hours a day; he boldly asserts that “Jihad will go on for a hundred years.” But as his captor, Dan (Jason Clarke), patiently explains, “In the end, bro, everybody breaks. It’s biology.” Ammar turns to Dan’s silent partner, Maya (Jessica Chastain), and cries, “Your friend is an animal. Please help me.” The ordeal continues. That’s diplomacy, by any means necessary

Chastain may at first seem an unusual choice for the lead. But she shows she has the chops to embody the pic's iron-nerved protag, holding her own in the testosterone-thick world of CIA black sites and top-level Washington boardrooms. She first appears as witness to a military interrogation in which a colleague resorts to extreme measures to force information from an Al Qaeda money handler (Reda Kateb).

Compared with her wild-eyed cowboy of a colleague, Dan (Jason Clarke), Maya's body language suggests a little girl, clearly uncomfortable with the waterboarding and sexual humiliation that were common practice in the morally hazy rendition era. When Dan leaves the room for a moment, the desperate prisoner tries to appeal to her humanity. She wavers for only a moment before firing back...

Well there's nothing wrong with that... he asked a long time ago, they said no and he left it be. He's done nothing wrong lol

@Rambo, Did you even watch Lincoln? He could have easily made it more exciting but he wanted it to be true to the events that actually occurred. Since when did an Oscar worthy film have to be "Entertaining" To everyone.